Aaah Love

So, many of you probably already know but... I just can't help but say it! :D my good friend Sara is getting married! On June 21st in the Salt Lake Temple. And I have been pronounced a bridesmaid! :D eep! This means I gotta get in shape! :o oy. BUT I cannot wait for her! It's so exciting! But it also makes me so... envious I suppose. lol I guess 'cause that is because I really wish to get married. so much so. Haha my mother keeps telling me to wait until that time, to enjoy single life but I've been single long enough. I'm tired of it. lol :P but it's exciting for sara 'cause I get to be a bridesmaid along with my other friend stephanie (sara's sister is gonna be the maid of honor) Her color's are Red and Silver. Those are very beautiful color's together. And it's a plus 'cause I look good in Red. :3 I know I know. I need to be patient. And for the most part I am. But it seems that I need to learn more patience. 'cause I know that as soon as I forget about it all, the Lord will bring someone in my way for me. So, for now, I just need to focus my time and energy on serving the Lord the best that I can. Hopefully I can bring those back unto the Lord. :3 I love this church so much! But there are times when I just hate patience. hahaha :P anyways... Enjoy your sundays and... the rest of your days that happen after Sunday's.

Sing Sweet Nightingale

My dear, lovely family and relatives; I have written a new poem. As recent as of a few minutes ago. :) I went to see Emma Smith: My Story today and have felt in such high spirits that I could not help but write a poem. So here is the result of said feelings and I hope you enjoy this lovely poem I have written. ^_^


Forever Burned In My Heart

Life...
I have found,
Can be tough to live in.

Such burdens we carry,
Such turmoil,
And heartache...

It doesn't seem that
We'd be able to
Keep moving forward

In the darkets days,
Of our very,
Very short lives.

It could feel as if
We no longer can go on
Living.

But how untrue
And wrong,
Thinking such things is.

True,
Life is a hard thing
To go through.

But there is
Just one thing I know
That can beat the odds

Of this hard,
Hard
Life.

Our Dear,
Loving, merciful
Lord and Savior.

He's born our grief,
Our pain, our sorrow;
Our happiness and joy.

He died on the cross,
In the hopes that He
May see

Every single Being
On this earth
In the next life.

My testimony of his love,
Burns deep
Within the bosom of my soul.

He is always there.
Always just
Two steps ahead

Of whatever part
Of life that
We are living in.

Even through
The mist of our
Trials;

If we look deep enough,
We can find his hand,
In every Thing we do.

He
Loves
Us!

I know this to be as true
And clear,
As the singing of a bird's lullaby.

He loves us
With every fiber
Of His being.

And I
Cannot
Deny Him.

The Olive Tree

In sunday school today, we got to learn about the olive tree. Now, I can't remember exactly what it was called but I know that that is what it was about; and it is in Jacob 5. Turns out that that chapter is seven pages long. Ha! So we had to kind of... skim through it a little bit. Usually we have Ron and Susan Thorne teach our class 'cause they are our teachers but they were down in St. George this weekend and so we had a substitute (It seems like they're always gone lol). Our Substitute was Patriarch Chipman. Man he is the greatest guy! I love him! And so, he was teaching the lesson, being funny and... it turns out that the whole story of the olive tree is really about the second coming. As he was teaching, he began to tell us more about the Second Coming and how it would all happen. And what I liked about his talk a whole lot was this quote he told us that was by Joseph Fielding Smith I think... I can't quite remember who spoke it but it said...

"Without question, there are many valient souls now living who were worthy of a millenial birth...but have been sent to earth at this time to be lights and guides to many of our fathers children"

What I love about this quote is that... even though we are born in this time, and there are many, many souls who will be born in the time when the Savior reigns as Lord of Lords and King of Kings and that they were worthy enough to be born at that time; so were a whole bunch of us. So many of us who are living in this time and dispensation were worthy enough to live in the millenial days but because of the wickedness of the world at this time, the Lord needed his most valient and most righteous to come down to this earth to bring as many of his sons and daughter's back to him as possible (I also learned that from patriarch chipman).

I just love that. For a long time I kept wondering if I wasn't worthy enough to live in the time of the millenium. If I wasn't that great. I actually wondered if something was wrong with me that I couldn't be born in that time. Of course... over time I've come to learn how untrue those thoughts are and I felt even more how untrue they were when I heard that quote. I can't believe how blessed I am. How much the Lord really is two steps ahead of me. I often wonder what my calling in this life could be, how I'm going to live up and be able to do the work He wants me to do but, that's where faith comes in. We just gotta have faith that He will help us and guide us and give us the trials we need in order to move forward in his Gospel and spread the word to all we know and be able to do our callings to the best of our ability. :)

I love Sunday's.

Awww How Sweet

So, I was at work last week, on friday. And I had to work at the kettle corn stand. That was pretty cool, and it was fun even though it was cold. And at one point, there was this really cute little girl who came up to the kettle stand with her mother and she had such beautiful, long, red hair that was a bit curly and she was askin' her mom somethin', very quietly and then I hear her mom say "it's ok dear, just ask." And so the little girl turned and looked up at me and said "you're really beautiful." I was Soooo happy to hear that from a little girl! And you know, coming from a child, they speak the truth. And I am happy to say that I actually, in a way, believe her. :) ^_^ I told her too how I thought she was a beautiful little girl and had beautiful hair. :) She smiled at that.
And at the end of the day, when we were closing up, this mother came up to us and asked if there was any way we could get her daughter some popcorn for 3 dollars. Because 3 dollars is how much the small bag costs. Me and the other guy working at the stand looked at the little girl, crying, and holding the 3 dollars out to us and he went to his little pile where he had 2 large bags left over. One for him, and one for another guy (I had my own in my hand. there was 3 large bags left) and he gave this little girl the large bag (which costs 7 dollars) and took the 3 from her. I about handed her my own and then saw him going to get his for her. But she was just soooo sweet, and so cute; you couldn't pass up a little girl like her. She wanted the popcorn so bad. And I felt so happy. We had done a good deed I feel and I felt so good. lol and also because that little girl from earlier had totally made my day.

And this General Conference that's happened these last two days... my how amazing it's been! This General Conference, though, has seemed different than the ones from the past. It seemed more... urgent. But I still am never amazed that I hear just what I needed to hear most out of one or more of those talks. How awesome is that? I've said it before but I can't help but be amazed, and in awe. Our Savior and Heavenly Father really do listen to us, and really do hear our thoughts. 'Cause even when we do not express in our prayer's some of the things we are thinking and have bothered us for a day or more... he is always able to tell us in such a way...

Wonders

I don't know if you all have noticed, but I have posted up 2 pictures. One to the right of me, and one on the bottom. The one on the bottom is of The Savior coming out of his tomb, being ressurected. I chose that specific picture becuase not only does it portray exactly what we believe in but the detail that went into this picture is just simply amazing. Every strain of grass was drawn out, the flowers were drawn out with such detail and the clothes, they look like they are a brilliant white. It's just simply an amazing picture and I absoluetly love what it represents. He lives. Our Savior Lives! What joy do we have to cause in this huh?
My second picture is on the right of here, and it is a calla lily flower. The reason I have chosen this flower is because A. It is a beautiful flower and B. I learned at the Womens Conference a week ago that the church uses this flower because it is, in a way, a representation of our struggle to stand out. For this flower is able to live among the weeds. It is able to stand out, to have the strength live and be different, to have a beautiful aura and overall represent itself with such dignity. And the color white is also beautiful on this flower because it is in a way a reminder to help us to stay clean, and worthy. A representation of the House of the Lord. And I love this flower. I've always loved white flowers, especially the rose but this... I love this even more because I've found out that it can live and grow and prosper, even among something that wants to destroy it.